Fair point about StrongDM and Teleport pricing. Actually, even their enterprise features are free in Hoop. We took a different approach - core PAM stuff is all free and open source.

We monetize on a new layer - packet manipulation, like AI data masking. So you get enterprise PAM features without the enterprise price tag.

Might be worth a look as given the strategy these features should remain free. Could save you some serious cash. Repo's public if you wanna kick the tires: https://github.com/hoophq/hoop